I am working on an App that will be run on 4 machines at the same time. These will be sharing 2 printers. The app will be used for regisering pple who attend a seminar and will have to print the names of those who do on badges the size of a label. I have not seen a VB app work on labels so I wanted to know whether there are any components, samples or API functions I could use to do this and also I need a strategy to handle concurrent print request so that if 2 pple try to print some details, the print server will combine them and print them at the same time, without having to reload the paper. Also, since this will have to print details as and when they are entered, I also want to know how I can print on a particular position when some of the labels on the A4 paper have been used. Would appreciate speedy response. Thanx.

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I have just been researching this problem, i have looked through several API viewers and have found nothing useful to do with the positioning of the printer. Which interface card and printer do you have, i may be able to find some more specific material for it?

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I am using a standard parallel port and the printer(s) could be either
1) Epson Stylus 440 or
2) Epson Stylus 680 and 880

if we use option 1, both printers will be Stylus 440 otherwise we will use the combination mentioned in opion 2.

I've just been thinking about whether or not it is possible to do with the Printer object's Current(X|Y) properties. I don't know if you will be able to do anything with that but I am now trying that out. Please get back to me. Thanx...


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i don't really do much work with printing, to be honest i hate them! I have been looking for an API that could be used to position the printer but have not yet found one.

One idea i did have was that if you know how to put several of these labels on the same page then you could send all of the data from each computer using a client app and the server computer can recieve the data and when it has recieved enough label data it can start printing that page. Understand what i'm saying? You could also get the server app to spread the load by sending every odd sheet to one printer and every even sheet to the other.

Maybe you should also submit a support request to Epson asking if they have any API etc. that you can use. I was going to do that but they require serial numbers etc. that i don't have.

[Edited by win_dir on 10-05-2003 at 07:35 PM GMT]

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